Category: Student Blog 2015

The most incredible thing happened on the 5th, right after dinner. I went outside to read Jurassic Park on the bow. It was cloudy and rather dull, but not very cold.

My watch started mid-ROPOS dive, so figuring out what was going on took some time and orientation.

In the past twenty-four hours I feel like I have been incredibly productive, probably the most productive I have been in a single day on this ship. I worked from late on the 31st

We were on a weather hold again today when I woke up for my watch, which persisted into the afternoon. ROPOS was going to be deploying a BEP and recovering an old one.

I feel like I haven’t tried to shake it up in a while with any poems, haikus, or other types of writing, so today I’m going to try and write as if this blog post was a postcard.

Everything seems to be moving extremely slow today. It’s like the ship itself is holding its’ breath while we approach the Axial site

The past two days have been hectic for the APL engineers. A deep profiler was sent out the morning of the 27th. As usual ROPOS was sent down to the seafloor

I am very excited to be on watch during a live dive and see the live feed that ROPOS will be streaming. ROPOS is such an amazing piece of technology, and I feel very privileged to be able to log ROPOS dives as the vehicle descends…

We ran two CTDS this morning and all the students helped to collect samples because there was a lot of them. After we hosed off the CTD and rigged it back up, I went into the lab and helped Brendan analyze pH samples. He is a great resource and

Thank you.
Thank you to everyone. Thank you for gifting me the adventure of a lifetime, thank you for sharing your stories and helping me build some of my own.